Charles Norman Boykin

Chuck was not my paternal brother. It went alot deeper than that.
Chuck was closer than i ever thought i could be with someone from the home. i had some realy bad times in the home and chuck always made me feel better. some of those times were created by my own blood. chuck was more that a best friend. he was a brother in my heart as well as a brother in the home. i was on a case that took me away for nine months and when i visited my mom the day i got i back i found a mhsaa news letter with his obit.

i was totaled. i didn't even know he was sick. chuck had been stricken with viraul pneumonia. he had passed away 6 months before. he is buried in Belair maryland. he was my salvation more than once. my mom still cries when we talk about him. if i took anything with me from the home it was feeling i had a "Brother".

there are many we call friends but few we truly call family.

the exact date i cannot remember, nor at this point do i wish to remember. it was in the summer of 1988 or 1989. he left a wife, and a beautiful little boy.

Harry Charlie died several years ago, not sure when. Had to be over ten years though. I was getting ready to go to work when I heard on teh news that a man in Hanover died in a car accident. They said that his name was Charles Boykin, I didn't think much of it then because I knew that he was from Baltimore, but low a behold it was him. Yes he was a good guy I liked him as well. I think about him and other people now and then (I guess we all do).
rednck, who are you?

You died too young my brother. to this day i regret not being there to say good bye. i hope you understand. i wish you were here. there is not a day goes by that i don't miss you.